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sempĭternus , a, um, adj. semper; like hesternus and aeternus, from heri and aevum,
I.everlasting, ever-during, perpetual, continual, imperishable, eternal, sempiternal (cf. aeternus init.; “very freq. and class.): fragile corpus animus sempiternus movet, etc.,Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26; cf. id. N. D. 3, 12, 29: “immortalis memoria et sempiterna,Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 15: “deorum vita sempiterna,Ter. And. 5, 5, 3; cf.: “aevo sempiterno frui,Cic. Rep. 6, 13, 13: “ignes,id. ib. 6, 15, 15; cf.: “cursus stellarum,id. ib. 6, 17, 17: “gratias agere sempiternas,Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 84: “amicus,id. Most. 1, 3, 90; id. Pers. 1, 1, 36; cf.: “verae amicitiae,Cic. Lael. 9, 32; so, “hiemes,Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 4: “ignis Vestae,Cic. Cat. 4, 9, 18: “documentum Persarum sceleris,id. Rep. 3, 9, 15: “memoria amicitiae nostrae,id. Lael. 4, 15: “odia,id. ib. 10, 35: “consilium senatus,id. Sest. 65, 137: “potentia,Tac. A. 3, 30 et saep.: “nihil umquam nisi sempiternum et divinum animo volutare,Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 28: “nihil nisi sempiternum spectare,id. Rab. Perd. 10, 29: “in sempiternum,forever, Vulg. Deut. 5, 29 et saep. —Adv., in three forms (not in Cic.), always, forever, perpetually. *
b. sem-pĭternō , Cato ap. Charis. p. 194 P.: “sempiterno permanet ea materia,Vitr. 1, 5; 9, 1, 2; Sol. 35, 5.—
c. sempĭternē , Pac. ap. Non. 170, 20; Claud. Mam. Stat. An. 1, 3.
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